BIAL and Recipharm expand long-term supply agreement for opicapone API
Portuguese pharma company, BIAL, and global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), Recipharm, have expanded a long-term agreement for the global manufacturing and supply of BIAL’s proprietary molecule opicapone. The API being manufactured at Recipharm’s facility in Cramlington, UK is used to formulate BIAL’s Ongentys product, an adjunctive therapy used to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease. The expansion of the agreement with BIAL follows the successful market authorisation application for Japan in June with the product officially launching to the Japanese